Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SMALLTHORNE

SMALLTHORNE, a chapelry in Norton-in-the-Moors parish, Stafford; 2 miles ENE of Burslem r. station. It was constituted in 1859; and its Post town is Norton-in-the-Moors, under Stoke-on-Trent. Pop., 1,727. Houses, 341. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £160.* Patron, the Rector of Norton.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Norton in the Moors CP/Ch       Staffordshire AncC
Place: Smallthorne

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